News Hounds reports that Fox News has now covered McCain's "rejection" of Hagee's endorsement. There was 41 seconds of coverage during the Cavuto show.

If you want to play the new board game from Hunter Brothers, tentatively called "Can Fox News Go Forty One Seconds Without Screwing Up The News", good news: they even managed multiple factual error during their mere few sentences of coverage. Cavuto:

Alright. Republican presidential candidate John McCain has rejected the endorsement of that fellow [picture of Hagee on screen]. He's Texas evangelist John Hagee who had been very critical of the Catholic church ah, essentially saying that it was a dying institution and that its followers were lemmings.

Bzzt. Actually, he's been critical of the Catholic Church by calling it "The Great Whore", and asserting it to be in league with the Antichrist. A wee bit different from merely calling people "lemmings."

Also, McCain did not reject Hagee for saying Catholics were tools of the Antichrist. He explicitly did not reject Hagee for that one, had anyone at Fox News been paying the slightest bit of attention. He only rejected Hagee now for another one of his asinine theories, this one being that Hitler was part of God's plan for "hunting" the Jews and driving them back to Israel. For that one, McCain finally pulled the plug -- apparently you can insult Catholics all you want, but once you start into the crazy-ass End Times pseudo-Christian anti-Semitism, then you've finally gone too far. Good to know.


Here's another thought. When Obama had his "pastor problem", he responded with a speech about race in America that was blunt, direct, and according to many a triumph of oratory. Do we think McCain will respond to Hagee with a dramatic speech about religious intolerance in this country? Any guesses on that one?

Bonus points to anyone who sees anyone, on any news program, ask that question, or for that matter who sees any news program devote an entire hour to this denunciation, after nearly coming to profession-wide punditry orgasm over Obama's break with Wright.


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